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Health and Well-being for Older People

01 December 2002

Nursing Older People

Book Review

Nurses who are keen to promote healthy ageing have been waiting for this book. It will appeal to educationalists and practitioners alike. Its scope is wide ranging...

Older People and Their Needs: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective

01 May 2001

Nursing Older People

Book Review

Fourteen relatively short chapters make up this informative and very readable text aimed at professionals and experienced family carers. The wide range of topics,...

Assessing for delirium

01 October 2002

Nursing Older People

Nursing older people

Delirium is a complex phenomenon that can develop at any time in life. It is most likely to occur in older age and in those people who already have cognitive...

Ageing

01 September 2003

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This book of edited contributions is divided into three parts and addresses issues of physical, psychological and social health in the context of ageing. Part one...

Nursing Older People: a guide to practice in care homes

01 January 2007

Nursing Older People

Book Review

The latest edition of this comprehensive text book is unprecedented in its scope within the UK. There are 34 chapters that cover ageing and old age, essential...

Mental disorders in older adults

01 March 2009

Nursing Older People

Book Review

Readers with a background in gerontology may be familiar with Professor Zarit’s seminal work on family caregiving for older adults. In this book he teams up with his...

Influenza vaccination

01 December 2000

Nursing Older People

CPD

Nurses have an important part to play in dispelling myths about influenza vaccination and in actively encouraging older people to attend for vaccination. Irene...

Training of care home staff

01 May 2009

Nursing Older People

Letter

A recent news item in the Health Service Journal (Anonymous 2009) stated that West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust had supplied defibrillators to more than 200...

Nursing research: Designs and methods

01 July 2009

Nursing Older People

Book Review

I HIGHLY recommend this new and refreshing textbook, which has something to offer those new to research or seasoned researchers.

Caring for older people who have a hearing disability

01 February 2002

Nursing Older People

CPD

Hearing disability in older people is the cause of much distress and can result in the person affected withdrawing from social contact either through an inability to...